St Francis’, Valley Park is in Interregnum following the retirement of our Vicar, Rev’d Peter Hutchinson at the end of June 2017. However it is very much business as usual, in so far as we are able.Our Church is being led by our Churchwardens at present, with our Methodist Minister, Rev’d Peter Cornick (when available) and visiting Anglican Clergy, leading Eucharistic worship, and lay leaders from among our Congregation leading other Services.Please contact our Parish Office in the first instance if you need advice or information from us.Scroll down this page to see what is happening at St Francis’ in the next few days and weeks …

Join us at any of our services during this
Season of Penitence, Reflection and Prayer
as we seek to ‘Share God’s Life‘.

Happening this week at
St. Francis’.

Our “Duty Churchwarden” until
18th February is Steve WilliamsDuty Warden from 19th – 25th February is Liz. Watts.

Note:St Francis’ School Breakfast Club (7.30 a.m. – 9.00 a.m.) &
St Francis’ After School Club (3.30 p.m. – 6.00 p.m.)
held each weekday in School Terms.

All members of the Community of all ages most welcome.Creche with toys and games for children.

Community Information Point for Local Community, Health
and Benefits Information.More:

MEN’S BREAKFAST

Join us for a “Full English”, fellowship and
Thought for the Day

Next Breakfast:Saturday 14th April8.15 a.m. for 8.30 a.m.

All Menfolk Welcome.

NB: No Men’s Breakfast in March due to
Men’s Weekend Away
(2 – 4 March)

GlitterandGlue

Glitter and Glue is an hour of
craft, messy play, stories and
songs for the under fives
and their parents/carers.Glitter and Glue is held monthly in term-time –
all pre-school children and
their carers are welcome.Next Session:Friday 9th March10.00 a.m. – 11.00 a.m.More:

Week 1 – Who am I? And why am I here?

Key Readings: Mark, Ch. 1, vs. 9 – 15; Ephesians, Ch. 1, vs. 3 – 8a.

Lent is a time of inward reflection on our relationship with God, for a time setting our interests in second place (even if that just means going without chocolate!); it starts on Ash Wednesday by us symbolically putting on sackcloth and ashes to grieve for what we have become.

The aim of this year’s Lent Course is to encourage us to build a habit of following God’s ways, and so become more like Jesus.

These questions are fundamental, central to our being, and for many never answered. Yet our passages give the answer, clear and unambiguous. We are chosen by God, adopted by him, bought through Jesus’ sacrifice, with the specific purpose of being holy & blameless in his sight (irrespective of what others say!), and through this enabled to have all wisdom & understanding (Eph. Ch. 1) – wow!

And in Mark we see Jesus facing and wrestling with this same calling, the 40 days’ desert temptation presumably being Jesus way of explaining this to his friends.